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Orbi Throttling Wired Ethernet connection
I noticed this morning that our RBR40 seems to be throttling our 200 Mbps Interenet speeds down to about 90 Mbps on the wired connections around my home. Wifi is at 200Mbps+. I did separate multiple...
ekhalil FURRYe38 , After borrowing a thunderbolt to giagbit adapter, a usb-c to gigabit adapter and a very long cat 6 cable, I think I was able to determine that there may be a problem with the CAT 6 cable running from the RBR40 to the jack in my office. I connected the long CAT6 directly from my RBR40 to my Imac and got full speeds and 1000baset hardware. I connected my Macbook to the RBR40 and got full speed. I then connected my Macbook to the jack in my office and got 90mbps and 100baset hardware. I'm going to change the connector on the old CAT 6 and see if that restores full speeds. In the mean time wi-fi gives me full speed.
Bielski wrote:
I don't think it's a limitation with my iMac running a slow network card. It's a late 2015 iMac. It had been working at full speed since I installed the system in June 2018. The Apple TV is a Gen 4.
1) Apple TV Gen 4 (https://support.apple.com/kb/SP724?locale=en_US) has 100BASE-T interface so it supports maximum of 100Mbps so you are currently getting good speed from Apple TV:
2) iMac (21.5 inch, late 2015): has a 1000BASE‑T Gigabit Ethernet:
So unless you're connecting the iMAC to the RBR40 via a switch with100BASE‑T limitation you should get better speeds. Please confirm that the iMAC is directly connected to the router and not via other network elements.
The iMac is my primary computer so it has always been directly connected to the RBR40. I have second CAT 6 that goes to my Satellite box and a third that connects to a gigabit switch which had 2 other CAT 6 lines going to jacks in my home.
Per the earlier posts, the steps I have taken so far:
1- Restarted my RBR40 - no improvement
2- Restarted my iMac - no improvement
3- Restarted my Cable Modem
3. Disconnected EVERYTHING BUT the iMac from RBR40 - no improvement
Should a factory reset be the next (unfortunate) step?
ekhalil wrote:
Bielski wrote:
I don't think it's a limitation with my iMac running a slow network card. It's a late 2015 iMac. It had been working at full speed since I installed the system in June 2018. The Apple TV is a Gen 4.
1) Apple TV Gen 4 (https://support.apple.com/kb/SP724?locale=en_US) has 100BASE-T interface so it supports maximum of 100Mbps so you are currently getting good speed from Apple TV:
2) iMac (21.5 inch, late 2015): has a 1000BASE‑T Gigabit Ethernet:
So unless you're connecting the iMAC to the RBR40 via a switch with100BASE‑T limitation you should get better speeds. Please confirm that the iMAC is directly connected to the router and not via other network elements.